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[edit] Patterns of the lighting
when we talk about lightning, we always study the forms on how the lighning is made, study on how this lightning create less or enough amount of heat conducted because of the ions of our atmosphere, BUT, the question that is bothered in my mind is on how the lighting create their patterns in every lighning strike?
we all know its a hard and very dangerous study,furthermore, to know the EXACT patterns of lightning, we produce our own Tesla Coil to really destinguish the effect and on how strong this thing could be.
Question:
is it really the fact that lightning go to the flow like weather does? as we all know, weather has also no patterns to be followed relevant to lightning.vahn_dinio (talk) 13:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Answer: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002500/a002559/ ActiveStorage (talk) 01:30, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] 'Heat' Lightning
I came to this page looking for this information. But found it elsewhere. I think it would be at home on this page
http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/whys/heatlightning.htm http://whyfiles.org/137lightning/applet/index.html
Namely that heat lightning is (or can be) unaccompanied by rain and thunder.
[edit] Why is the bottom part of the article labeled as applying only to the U.S.?
Does someone really think that lighting in the U.S. is different from lighting in other parts of the world? What is especially strange is to see no explanation on this Talk page of the reason for this labeling.
If there is some good reason for this, could someone please state it here? If there is no good reason for this, could someone please remove this bizarre labeling of the latter part of the article? (I am a lightning ignoramus, so the someone should not be me.)
[edit] Most spectacular lightning strike incidences
Expand the list in the section "Most spectacular lightning strike incidences" and find more examples of spectacular lightning strikes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.46.252.238 (talk) 23:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Rocket lightning
There are two main issues:
First, I removed the first picture from the article because it contradicts the text's definition of rocket lightning. The text states, with a convincing citation, that rocket lightning is generally horizontal, whereas the pic appears to show vertical lightning. Even if rocket lightning can occasionally be vertical, the pic is hardly typical. If this is a pic of horizontal lightning, then it is not a good depiction. Instead, the second pic seems to be more consistent with the text's description, at least of the timing, of rocket lightning.
Second, there is now a related, and potentially confusing, class of lightning called rocket induced lightning. This is when a rocket trailing a copper wire is fired from the ground into a storm cloud. The wire creates a conductive path from the cloud to the ground, generating a return stroke along it. This sort of "rocket lightning" allows physicists to measure aspect of lightning which would be otherwise difficult to do with natural lightning.Robert P. O'Shea (talk) 22:44, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Fact
FACT : LIGHTING COMES FROM THE GROUND, NOT THE SKY —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.21.193.207 (talk) 22:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
